Sarah Sanders Schools CNN Reporter Over “Trump Resignation”

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders just schooled CNN White House Reporter April Ryan when she asked if Trump was considering resigning over the “turmoil:”

White House reporter April Ryan asked Tuesday if President Donald Trump had considered resigning from office this week, leading press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to call it an “absolutely ridiculous question.”

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“With all of this turmoil, particularly this last week, has the president at any time thought about stepping down before or now?” Ryan asked.

The GOP has warned Trump against firing Mueller and repeated those warnings today:

When Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says it would be “suicide” for President Trump to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller what exactly does that mean?

Grassley and other Republicans have been moved to weigh in once again on Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign and almost universally they agree with the plain-spoken Iowan’s sentiment.

They’ve had to pipe up because the president, at a meeting of his war council to discuss attacks on Syria, openly, angrily mused on whether or not he might fire Mueller or Mueller’s overseer, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

We have no reason to believe that Trump’s lashing out is more likely to result in action than before. The president is obviously upset to know that a number of Justice Department officials whom he selected gave the go-ahead for an audacious raid on the office, home and hotel room of Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen.

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But Trump has also seen other confidants, including his own son, sucked into the ongoing scandal and not taken provocative actions. That’s not to say the president is not hearing some very loud, very angry voices telling him to brook a constitutional crisis and smash the probe before it reaches even deeper into his inner circle. Trump has many friends and advisers who believe Mueller is a crook and represents nothing more than the “deep state” usurping power by any means necessary.

One main reason that Grassley and others do not take this point of view goes beyond their distaste for what they see as crackpot conspiracy theorizing. Even though it has not been a happy time for Republicans of late, it’s been quite a while since things have looked this good for the GOP.

In a Quinnipiac University poll out today Trump’s approval rating nudged up to 41 percent and disapproval for his job performance hit its lowest point ever at 52 percent. Those numbers roughly match our Halftime Report Scoreboard and reflect the general improvement for Trump and his party since hitting the skids late last year.

The more the left and the GOP establishment attacks Trump the stronger he becomes and shows more and more why he was, and remains, the right choice.

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